It is not a good thing, IMO, that remarks are acceptable by one individual and condemned by another. That is, in itself, prejudice.

I say that knowing that I am a hypocrite because I never worried when my Dad said something "outrageous" and that I've never seen Enid Blyton as racist but of her time and I think this is what is hacking me off about this.

The world is rewriting books, films, and lives to make them more PC to meet todays standards than accepting them as "of their time".

I've wandered off again - sorry folks!

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The world is rewriting books, films, and lives to make them more PC to meet todays standards than accepting them as "of their time".

I know and it is just plain silly. When I read articles about not being able to teach "The Merchant of Venice" or "Huckleberry Finn" in schools or how Demi Moore wanted to give "The Scarlet Letter" a feminist ending I think we are dumbing down the world.

You are so right. Political Correctness is an all pervading disease that destroys original thought and brilliant ideas. It kill the hope and suffocates the dream.

Prince Philip is, IMO, totally aware of this and is taking his stand against such cods wallop. Every time he takes one of these little shots I think of a 1980's wall poster "The Last Great Act of Defiance" - which pictures a small mouse looking up and flicking 'the bird' to a giant eagle swooping down on it.

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You are so right. Political Correctness is an all pervading disease that destroys original thought and brilliant ideas. It kill the hope and suffocates the dream.

Prince Philip is, IMO, totally aware of this and is taking his stand against such cods wallop. Every time he takes one of these little shots I think of a 1980's wall poster "The Last Great Act of Defiance" - which pictures a small mouse looking up and flicking 'the bird' to a giant eagle swooping down on it.

That´s so true!No Oscar Wilde or Mark Twain would exist if they had to cope with such extreme PC as we have today.I understand you shouldn´t use words like "******" but some other complaints by the PC-police are just plain ridiculous!
By the way,I also looked up "The Last Great Act of Defiance" and enjoyed the image,it is telling a lot.

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Avoiding danger in the long run is no safer than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure,or nothing. Helen Keller

In the Norman Parkinson interview with Princess Anne in 1983, towards the end of the interview, he asks her if she speaks "Australian". Anne says "Not strictly speaking, no. I enjoy listening to it, and occasionally pick up the odd word." She then proceeds to tell a funny story she had heard about how last war, there was a general doing the rounds at a hospital and there were some Australian troops. The general comes across a seriously wounded soldier and says to him "You didn't come in here to die." Anne then says in an Australian accent, "No, I came in yesterday!"

What a nice gaffe from Prince Philip and a clever observation too!I hope that everyone took it with humour and did not get offended by his witty answer:-)
(The Queen asked how much sight the boy had left and he answered:"Not a lot,judging by the tie he is wearing")

__________________Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger in the long run is no safer than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure,or nothing. Helen Keller

"If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort, provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly".

That's our Philip!

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